Re: [FRIAM] Best Cormac McCarthy novels

2023-06-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
I wrote McCarthy a letter in which i told him that my great-grandfather was killed in a gunfight right on the Mexican border in 1911. He wrote back a said he feared that the history of the West would never be written. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 San

Re: [FRIAM] Best Cormac McCarthy novels

2023-06-14 Thread Gary Schiltz
I read perhaps two thirds of Blood Meridian a few years ago. My memory is a little hazy about it now, but I just remember it feeling a little "disjointed", and quite bloody and violent (unnecessarily so, IMO). I might give it another go someday. Meanwhile, perhaps I'll try reading The Crossing on F

Re: [FRIAM] Best Cormac McCarthy novels

2023-06-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
Blood Meridian is his masterpiece but I enjoyed reading The Crossing more. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 1:29 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > Cormac McCarthy died yesterday in Santa Fe where he lived for the last 30 > yea